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sockeye salmon

DEFINITIONS OF: sockeye salmon

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n small salmon with red flesh; found in rivers and tributaries of the northern Pacific and valued as food; adults die after spawning

Synonyms:
Oncorhynchus nerka, blueback salmon, red salmon, sockeye
Type of:
salmon
any of various large food and game fishes of northern waters; usually migrate from salt to fresh water to spawn

n fatty red flesh of salmon of Pacific coast and rivers

Synonyms:
red salmon, sockeye
Type of:
salmon
flesh of any of various marine or freshwater fish of the family Salmonidae
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